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Where and When - can you place the picture?  Do you recognise the location? Or perhaps the part of the country? Can you tell when this picture was taken - is it recent, or from many years ago? The picture was taken yesterday - 26th May 2007. In Wiltshire too. Melksham. To be precise, at the Christie Miller sports centre on Bowerhill. It's a model - but a very realistic one - at a scale of 1:76. In my youth, I used to enjoy railway modelling - and put a huge amount of time into it. Not that I was (or am) particularly good with my hands - I certainly don't have the ability, not the patience, to produce something of exhibition quality. But I fondly remember hours working on what might have been at Swanage and Lulworth, and what might have been at Ullapool. Studied down to the history of the proposals that were made for lines but that were never built. Living now in "Great Western Territory" and having a fondness for Melksham, there's a temptation to get sucked in to doing *something* on Melksham. The substantial station of the mid 1900s shrank to closure in 1966, re-opening with a "halt" type platform in 1985 and a spluttering service since. So there's scope for anything from a substantial setup to a single track. But information is lacking and (at least for modern times) appropriate stock hard to find. I *am* going to say "watch this space". Not for anything huge, not for anything that's so realistic that you would have to do a double-take if you saw a picture. But I am tempted to set up a few yards of track, a model of the current station, and be able to run one or two representation trains - old and new, through it. [More from TrainWest.] (written 2007-05-27 10:21:48) Associated topics are indexed under M201 - Well House Manor - Around Melksham, Wiltshire[2665] Early Spring walk in Melksham - (2010-03-07) [2585] Consultation in Melksham, on Melkshams future - (2010-01-17) [2528] Melksham Christmas Lights - (2009-12-05) [2497] Brown horses in Melksham - (2009-11-08) [2480] Pantomimes around Melksham - 2009/2010 season - (2009-10-28) [2349] Businesses effected by road works in Melksham - (2009-08-11) [2329] Great to be in Melksham - (2009-08-08) [2297] Standing on the corner, Melksham Carnival - (2009-07-19) [2262] History is not always pretty - (2009-06-30) [2253] Walks in and around Melksham, Wiltshire - (2009-06-21) [2175] Melksham in pictures - (2009-05-11) [2168] In honour of the photograph, I present ... a walk from Reybridge to Lacock - (2009-05-10) [2142] Riverside Development - (2009-04-26) [2066] Melksham Industrial - (2009-03-04) [2064] East of Melksham Countryside - (2009-03-02) [2043] Confidence, Customer Service and Tourism in Melksham - (2009-02-15) [2008] The Month Ahead - What is happening in Melksham - (2009-01-25) [1986] Walk to Bowerhill - (2009-01-10) [1977] Going round the block - (2009-01-04) [1928] Melksham Oak Secondary School, Melksham, Wiltshire - (2008-12-07) [1451] More PHP sample and demonstration programs - (2007-12-01) [1436] A little touring help during a business trip to England - (2007-11-18) [1368] Getting the local voice heard - (2007-09-26) [1360] Asda in Melksham - Welcome or not? - (2007-09-21) [1343] Melksham Laundrette - (2007-09-09) [1341] Moving to Melksham? Househunting map. - (2007-09-09) [1330] While waiting for Melksham Post Office - (2007-09-02) [1271] Till the cows come home - (2007-07-19) [1266] Party in the Park - (2007-07-14) [1177] Sorting out for a site map - (2007-05-05) [1137] Wiltshire Circles - (2007-04-07) [1117] Newport Male Voice Choir - (2007-03-24) [977] Melksham and Norwich - (2006-12-10) [957] Improving the historic town of Melksham - (2006-11-30) [929] Presenting Melksham - for a weekend away in Wiltshire - (2006-11-17) [879] Tuesday night is party night - (2006-09-26) [866] A lazy programmer is a good programmer - (2006-09-15) [847] Image maps for navigation - a straightforward example - (2006-08-28) [830] Butterflies in a Wiltshire garden - (2006-08-12) [811] Melksham in Bloom - (2006-07-22) [805] Melksham Carnival Parade - (2006-07-16) [676] Melksham, Wiltshire - (2006-04-08) [437] Outside of the box - (2005-09-06)
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